Today is St. Patrick’s Day, I always play Irish music & cry, so many memories of my Irish Family. We were Sheehan’s, Kelly’s, Healion’s, Tiernan’s, Fitzpatrick’s , a wonderful family of 9 all good Catholic’s of course. What wonderful times we all had on Sunday’s at my Nana’s home in Brooklyn. Of course my father was a NYC Policeman & his brother a NYC Fireman. My mother’s 6 sister’s and 2 brothers are all gone now. My father was one of 8, they too are all gone. I miss those days at my Beloved Grandmother’s, she was the only one I knew and if there is a Heaven she is there.
I'm from the midwestern part of the USA and it makes me sad to see how much the USA has changed since this song was written. this is one of my favorite songs and my favorite version. I'm writing this May 25, 2020. Things have certainly changed dramaticaly in the last few weeks haven't they. Wish it could be more like the way I grew up.
ruclips.net/video/e5HWjbKX2_0/видео.html This is a song I wrote about what it might have been like for an Irish rail worker in Minnesota missing his girl in Galway
I'm Chinese and I'm a teenager now, five years ago in China we did this song in primary school, this was one of the first songs we did in choir, and I clearly remember the tune even if I was like 9. Now I've been in London for 3 years and I've not been back in China for 1 and a half years. On Tuesday I went to a king's singers concert and heard a live performance after like 5 years. I cried, it is quite tough to be a 10 hours plane journey away from my homeland and I miss it soo much especially my primary.
I am an old welder. I left my home in in eastern Kentucky as a boy and wandered west to the deserts and south to the swamps. I had wanderlust as a young man. I have bittersweet memories of family that are dead and gone home and the dogs I loved as a boy. I remember the green hills and the rivers I swam and fished in as a boy. I was happy then and when I hear this song it floods my soul with a profound sadness. I want it played at my funeral with photos of home.
While that might be true, it has absolutely nothing to do with this song. First, the name Shenandoah is about an Indian Chief, not the valley of the same name. Secondly. the song is a shanty thought to have originated from French voyageurs in North America. So, nothing to do with the Shenandoh Valley, and nothing to do with the Irish.
oh know my my mother was half Irish and Italian God rest her soul in peace I miss my mom she was a good person with a heart iluv you mom Joanne darling
This Country could never have been settled from West to East the way that it was from the East. The river system and geography was far more advantageous.
When I listen to song like this, I love to know the words too, so here they are: Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you, Away you rolling river. Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you, Away, I'm bound away 'Cross the wide Missouri. Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter, Away, you rolling river. For her I'd cross Your roaming waters, Away, I'm bound away 'Cross the wide Missouri. 'Tis seven years since last I've seen you, Away, you rolling river. 'Tis seven years since last I've seen you, Away, we're bound away 'Cross the wide Missouri. Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Away, you rolling river. Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Away, we're bound away 'Cross the wide Missour
+John O'Connor It's actually "Shenendo'", not "Shenendoah". The "ah" is a separate syllable commonly omitted to fit the meter better. Anyone referring to the Shenendoah River or Valley will say Shen-en-do-ah, not Shen-en-do.
Unless you were using the set of lyrics where the French fur trader falls in love with Chief Shenandoah's daughter (and the rest of these lyrics clearly are not that version), I'm not sure who the daughter you refer to here is.
First of all.....Thank you so much, John O’ Connor, for the words to the song. I love to sing along when I’m listening to music and it’s nice to have the words handy. I usually wait until no one is home and belt it out. (I don’t really have a good singing voice )😄 I was born in the Shenandoah Valley and moved to Canada 30 years ago, but those rolling mountains, green pastures and beautiful forests still live in my heart. I have a ‘coffee table’ book about the Shenandoah Valley and it has “Daughter of the Stars” as a subtitle.
There are so many versions of this lovely song. I just like the song, does not matter who sings it. Sometimes I just get this feeling of 1960s and 70s big screens of lovely America, blue skies and mountains. Let us just keep it like that.
+Danica Rodriguez There are so many versions of this lovely song. I just like the song, does not matter who sings it. Sometimes I just get this feeling of 1960s and 70s big screens of lovely America, blue skies and mountains. Let us just keep it like that.
Where did you find the irish tenors doing this song and the battle hymn of the republic? I searched the album cover shown at amazon but it doesn't show either of those songs. Please reply this is the best I have ever heard Thank you.
I'm playing this song in high school band. I play trumpet, 3rd part. We're playing Tichelli's arrangement. I'm glad I can hear the actual words. I daresay it will help me play it better.
Well, I'm Scottish I came to Canada forty years ago when I was thirty, I love Scottish and Irish music and absolutely love Shenandoah, the song is one that I remember learning as a boy growing up in Scotland I have been to forty three states and I'm sure not too many Americans can claim to have done the same, the USA is a beautiful and diverse country with people from every part of the globe, don't go knocking peoples heritage because you don't have one.
My mom is from Edinburgh. I too have visted like 45 states and agree with your above statement: I too love my Celtic heritage in music. After all, who do you think the above song was about? The Scots-Irish in America.
Just to let you know I live in the Shenandoah valley in the town of Shenandoah that sits on the Shenandoah river . My point is I'm wondering if this song as any connection to where I live
+Mason Plum "Oskanondoha" (Skenandoah also called Shenandoah) was the Indian chief of the Oneida Indians in Upstate NY in the 1700s. 6'5" and lived to be 110 yrs old. This song was originally a sailors song about wanting to steal away and marry one of Shenandoah's daughters. He was a larger than life man and French and Indian and Revolutionary war hero...and many things were named after him, including the Shenandoah River and Valley.
So you are saying my ancestors were garbage?????? I've got news for you, we Irish are just as good anybody else. The Irish took the jobs no one else wanted. Worked in the mines and did everything they could to support their families no matter how dirty the job was. So much for your "the armpit of Ireland". We are quite intelligent, family oriented, and hard working. Which is a hell of lot more than I can say for others who came to our shores!!!!
Please forgive him for all of us. The Irish saved western civilization and were invaluable to the growing power and industriousness of America when they desperately sought refuge on our shores. It worked out well for both of us. The Irish that stayed behind? Well, they had to endure a tough lot that not many Americans can identify with. Despite that, Irish filled the regiments of the very British Army that discriminated against them and covered themselves in glory - and sacrifice; they excelled in British politics against all odds. They have excelled at writing, song, poetry, boxing, scholarship, soldiery, theology, story telling, adult beverage manufacture and friendliness.
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Thank you for this beautiful rendition of the song.
Beautiful song
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I think this is the best version of this song I have ever heard. Absolutely beautiful.
Today is St. Patrick’s Day, I always play Irish music & cry, so many memories of my Irish Family. We were Sheehan’s, Kelly’s, Healion’s, Tiernan’s, Fitzpatrick’s , a wonderful family of 9 all good Catholic’s of course. What wonderful times we all had on Sunday’s at my Nana’s home in Brooklyn. Of course my father was a NYC Policeman & his brother a NYC Fireman. My mother’s 6 sister’s and 2 brothers are all gone now. My father was one of 8, they too are all gone. I miss those days at my Beloved Grandmother’s, she was the only one I knew and if there is a Heaven she is there.
I'm from the midwestern part of the USA and it makes me sad to see how much the USA has changed since this song was written. this is one of my favorite songs and my favorite version. I'm writing this May 25, 2020. Things have certainly changed dramaticaly in the last few weeks haven't they. Wish it could be more like the way I grew up.
Don't mess with this version pure gold
The Irish Rovers are terrific?
Irish tenors known and hated the world over . B
Beautiful, beautiful song - a favorite
Pure class
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ruclips.net/video/e5HWjbKX2_0/видео.html This is a song I wrote about what it might have been like for an Irish rail worker in Minnesota missing his girl in Galway
Beautifully sung--very nostalgic. A true folk song.
John is one of the best singers out there, but it,s Shen not shanendoah
Maybe he thought it was an Irish name Shannon, Doh! Ah!
This song just melts my heart, I have to audition for district x chorus with this song I'm so excited
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I'm Chinese and I'm a teenager now, five years ago in China we did this song in primary school, this was one of the first songs we did in choir, and I clearly remember the tune even if I was like 9. Now I've been in London for 3 years and I've not been back in China for 1 and a half years. On Tuesday I went to a king's singers concert and heard a live performance after like 5 years. I cried, it is quite tough to be a 10 hours plane journey away from my homeland and I miss it soo much especially my primary.
I am an old welder. I left my home in in eastern Kentucky as a boy and wandered west to the deserts and south to the swamps. I had wanderlust as a young man. I have bittersweet memories of family that are dead and gone home and the dogs I loved as a boy. I remember the green hills and the rivers I swam and fished in as a boy. I was happy then and when I hear this song it floods my soul with a profound sadness. I want it played at my funeral with photos of home.
@Mohan Sandal A lot of Chinese defect then send industry secrets back to China. Chinese in tech are generally spies.
Do you worship the white man? Do you?
Beautiful!!
I how I love the melody as well as lyrics too love this every night when i'm in bed
Love this song---truly great version.
This is the tempo/tone I remember when I first heard it.
There is something, mysterious in ways that I love about this song. It always tugs at my heart.
No body owns music !
bring a tear to a glass eye
Most of the immigrant to the Shenandoah Valley were of Irish and Scottish descent. Forced to leave their native homes by the British.
While that might be true, it has absolutely nothing to do with this song. First, the name Shenandoah is about an Indian Chief, not the valley of the same name. Secondly. the song is a shanty thought to have originated from French voyageurs in North America. So, nothing to do with the Shenandoh Valley, and nothing to do with the Irish.
oh know my my mother was half Irish and Italian God rest her soul in peace I miss my mom she was a good person with a heart iluv you mom Joanne darling
This Country could never have been settled from West to East the way that it was from the East. The river system and geography was far more advantageous.
Inspirational !
Great clarity in the singing of one of my favorite songs Tom Billsborough
When I listen to song like this, I love to know the words too, so here they are: Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you, Away you rolling river. Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you, Away, I'm bound away 'Cross the wide Missouri. Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter, Away, you rolling river. For her I'd cross Your roaming waters, Away, I'm bound away 'Cross the wide Missouri. 'Tis seven years since last I've seen you, Away, you rolling river. 'Tis seven years since last I've seen you, Away, we're bound away 'Cross the wide Missouri. Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Away, you rolling river. Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Away, we're bound away 'Cross the wide Missour
+John O'Connor It's actually "Shenendo'", not "Shenendoah". The "ah" is a separate syllable commonly omitted to fit the meter better. Anyone referring to the Shenendoah River or Valley will say Shen-en-do-ah, not Shen-en-do.
thanks, language has subtleties. And as well local variations.
Unless you were using the set of lyrics where the French fur trader falls in love with Chief Shenandoah's daughter (and the rest of these lyrics clearly are not that version), I'm not sure who the daughter you refer to here is.
First of all.....Thank you so much, John O’ Connor, for the words to the song. I love to sing along when I’m listening to music and it’s nice to have the words handy. I usually wait until no one is home and belt it out. (I don’t really have a good singing voice )😄 I was born in the Shenandoah Valley and moved to Canada 30 years ago, but those rolling mountains, green pastures and beautiful forests still live in my heart. I have a ‘coffee table’ book about the Shenandoah Valley and it has “Daughter of the Stars” as a subtitle.
Newfiemom4 The song has nothing to do with the Shenandoah Valley. It takes place on the Missouri River!!!
There are so many versions of this lovely song. I just like the song, does not matter who sings it. Sometimes I just get this feeling of 1960s and 70s big screens of lovely America, blue skies and mountains. Let us just keep it like that.
I love this song!!!,The Three Irish tenors sing a splendid version!!!,BRAVO!!!(also like very much the "a capella"version of Peter Hollens!!!)
This is actually John McDermott singing with his own band, not the Irish Tenors. Lovely, rich voice and beautiful annunciation.
+ShyMoonheart Thanks for your tip (thougth it migth be a "solo" of the trio...anyway it is a great version of this song).BRAVO!!!
Oh, yes I do as well. . .
Best version: Tennessee Ernie Ford. Honorable mentions: 97th Regimental String Band and Peter Hollens.
Peter Hollens is the best I've ever heard. I cry from his voice alone.
How many song lyrics have been twisted to suit the needs of one who loves the song?
+Paul Miller I only refer to folk songs; not those with biblical lyrics.
Why are you guys arguing, no one owns this song.
I love this song, just beautiful.
I love this music
+Danica Rodriguez There are so many versions of this lovely song. I just like the song, does not matter who sings it. Sometimes I just get this feeling of 1960s and 70s big screens of lovely America, blue skies and mountains. Let us just keep it like that.
I'm a Virginian and traveled the south east when a was a diamond salesman. I always sang this song when crossing the Shenandoah.
Where did you find the irish tenors doing this song and the battle hymn of the republic? I searched the album cover shown at amazon but it doesn't show either of those songs. Please reply this is the best I have ever heard Thank you.
Not the Irish Tenors. This is John McDermott with his own band performing this beautiful song. Search his CDs on Amazon and you will find it.
AWAY YOUR ROLLING RIVER
Ah how lovely, what a gorgeous version and I'm so grateful to have stumbled upon this fantastic trio!
+livinghappyisachoice aye lass
Indeed I just heard this version for the first time. Amazingly beautiful 💕
I have been singing this song since 1958....and I have never heard a better version...Thanks, Guys
I remember I sang this in my elementary school chorus. So many years have passed and I still love this song as much as I did when I first heard it ^^
I'm playing this song in high school band. I play trumpet, 3rd part. We're playing Tichelli's arrangement. I'm glad I can hear the actual words. I daresay it will help me play it better.
Toph Beifong I know exactly what you mean. I'm kinda in the same spot.
Chanticleer does the best version of this song yet. So awesome.
Well, I'm Scottish I came to Canada forty years ago when I was thirty, I love Scottish and Irish music and absolutely love Shenandoah, the song is one that I remember learning as a boy growing up in Scotland I have been to forty three states and I'm sure not too many Americans can claim to have done the same, the USA is a beautiful and diverse country with people from every part of the globe, don't go knocking peoples heritage because you don't have one.
My mom is from Edinburgh. I too have visted like 45 states and agree with your above statement: I too love my Celtic heritage in music. After all, who do you think the above song was about? The Scots-Irish in America.
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Just to let you know I live in the Shenandoah valley in the town of Shenandoah that sits on the Shenandoah river . My point is I'm wondering if this song as any connection to where I live
O and our town mascot "daughter of the skies" is named after an Indian Chiefs daughter
+Mason Plum "Oskanondoha" (Skenandoah also called Shenandoah) was the Indian chief of the Oneida Indians in Upstate NY in the 1700s. 6'5" and lived to be 110 yrs old. This song was originally a sailors song about wanting to steal away and marry one of Shenandoah's daughters. He was a larger than life man and French and Indian and Revolutionary war hero...and many things were named after him, including the Shenandoah River and Valley.
Irish? Leave it to a potato, I don't a damned who signs it. IT IS USA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Not the armpit of Ireland
So you are saying my ancestors were garbage?????? I've got news for you, we Irish are just as good anybody else. The Irish took the jobs no one else wanted. Worked in the mines and did everything they could to support their families no matter how dirty the job was. So much for your "the armpit of Ireland". We are quite intelligent, family oriented, and hard working. Which is a hell of lot more than I can say for others who came to our shores!!!!
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Cathie Soli
why so ugly? I guess there's not enough ugliness in the world, huh?
Please forgive him for all of us. The Irish saved western civilization and were invaluable to the growing power and industriousness of America when they desperately sought refuge on our shores. It worked out well for both of us. The Irish that stayed behind? Well, they had to endure a tough lot that not many Americans can identify with. Despite that, Irish filled the regiments of the very British Army that discriminated against them and covered themselves in glory - and sacrifice; they excelled in British politics against all odds. They have excelled at writing, song, poetry, boxing, scholarship, soldiery, theology, story telling, adult beverage manufacture and friendliness.